guano

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Like curassows, guans are in great measure of arboreal habit.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Upon the ground, the large curassows, and guans, and the “gallo,” with his plumage of bright red.

From The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon by Weir, Harrison

Gallinaceous birds usually breed freely in confinement, but some do not; and even the guans and curassows, kept tame by the South American Indians, never breed.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

BATES, H.W., refusal of wild animals to breed in captivity. -sterility of American monkeys in captivity. -sterility of tamed guans.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles